09/05/19 Vocational trainees from Nuremberg are digging for the environment "It's great to see your own project coming to life. Even though we are just vocational trainees, we can get quite a lot achieved when we are given the chance," says Thomas Böhm with some pride as he looks back on a job well done. He is a...
02/05/19 Wittenberge Maintenance Depot upgrades 24,000th freight wagon with intelligent telematics This means that Wagon Intelligence has now upgraded far more than one third of the entire freight wagon fleet with telematics. By the end of 2020 it should be the entire fleet. Rail Pankin, wagon intelligence technician and maintenance master...
30/04/19 For low-noise freight trains: Mobile service teams replace brake blocks at any location The mobile brake block replacement service is part of DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung's full service offering. It enables rail freight transport companies to transform their noisy vehicles into low-noise vehicles without having to spend time in a...
12/04/19 "We are much more than just Wi-Fi" Colibri (Coach Link for Broadband Information Exchange) is available in over a thousand vehicles throughout Germany. Often, it simply means customers are offered Wi-Fi. But in fact there is much more behind the IT solution from DB...
25/03/19 2,000 kilometres to the repair workshop In the locomotive production facility at DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung GmbH in Dessau the jokes are recently told in Swedish. The engineers and technicians have a heavy-duty visitor from the far north.
28/01/19 Elbe-Spree network: DB Regio wins tender and will fit trains with full Colibri product portfolio Expanded services, higher quality and more trains on the Elbe-Spree network: along with ODEG, DB Regio has secured the largest tender deal in Europe for regional and local rail passenger transport.
06/12/18 Welding expertise from Krefeld in demand in Kuala Lumpur Employees from DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung's Krefeld maintenance depot have travelled to Malaysia's capital on several occasions. In Kuala Lumpur they carried out difficult aluminium welding work on KLIA Ekspres trains, which connect the airport...
12/11/18 Meiningen maintenance depot puts Molli back on the tracks In an accident at the end of May, a narrow-gauge steam locomotive belonging to Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli was severely damaged and put out of service. At short notice, the Meiningen maintenance depot of DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung carried...
05/10/18 The Colibri family is growing: ever more on-board Wi-Fi Colibri provides a uniform IT infrastructure and enables numerous digital applications to be run, including on-board Wi-Fi. A multi-provider system developed by DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung utilises various providers' mobile phone networks and also...
26/09/18 InnoTrans 2018: Rush of visitors to the DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung stand Record visitor numbers at the world's leading trade fair for transport technology InnoTrans: around 160,000 industry representatives went to the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds at the end of September to learn about products and services in the...
